In her book, Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner, Kathy Kuhl explains how she came to the realization that school wasn’t working for her son and decided to do what she never thought she could: stay home and teach him.
Schools in the United States face enormous challenges in teaching children to read and write. Meeting these challenges in the 21st century will require a fundamental change in how policy makers, parents, and school professionals look at improving schools.
One of the keys to helping struggling readers is to provide them with books that they can and want to read. Fiction for struggling readers must have realistic characters, readable and convincing text, and a sense of the readers’ interests and needs. Non-fiction books, newspapers, magazines, even comic books can hook students on reading.
I think the AT Matrix has last documented more than 400 assistive technology tools out there on the market. So finding the right tool can be challenging.
In kindergarten and first grade, we definitely want to work on remediation and teaching those skills, because you’re still at an early age, where students often experience a lot of growth in
Your question asks what can be done to address systematic problems within a school or school system, even if your own child’s problems have been resolved.
